Openly white supremacist views remain deeply unpopular among Americans

Evidence

The contagion certainly isn’t spreading very far or fast: in an August 2017 poll by ABC News and the Washington Post, just 9 percent of those surveyed said it was “acceptable” to hold neo-Nazi or white supremacist views. Ten percent said they supported the alt-right movement, while 50 percent said they opposed it (the remaining 40 percent had no opinion, indicating they weren’t familiar with the meaning of the terms). … A more recent study by a University of Alabama researcher found that though people might not use the term “alt-right,” plenty of white Americans are willing to say they agree with those beliefs. “Roughly 5.64 percent of America’s 198 million non-Hispanic whites have beliefs consistent with the alt-right’s worldview,” the author George Hawley wrote, or about eleven million Americans. — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 746